Submitted by Solaris Express 8/2005 (Nevada Build 19, thanks for clearing that up, Dan) was posted today, providing improved hardware compatibility, a IEEE1394 camera driver, improved USB support, support for USB smartcard readers, and roughly 600 bug fixes. You can obtain
a free download. An overview of new features is also available.
the downloads have been there for at least a week, as that’s how long i’ve been trying to get them from that awful script-based download server that only allows 2 concurrent connections per host and doesn’t like wget.
and this says nevada build 20, not 19.
or is this the final release version, not the community release, i get so confused with express 8/05, solaris 10, community, opensolaris….
Would have loved to see KDE integrated as an desktop GUI option and a (gui) package manager.Since they brought better usb (desktop) integration forward. Nevertheless they have improved some things.Solaris is still far from being usefull as an desktop OS.
You can get KDE from Blastwave – http://www.blastwave.org
I’ve downloaded b19 long ago… the file dates say july 30. So either your date is wrong or your build nr.
‘ve downloaded b19 long ago… the file dates say july 30. So either your date is wrong or your build nr.
It’s not Thom’s fault, the SUN engineer who announced the Solaris Express 08/05 release today said it was build 19, however it really is build 20. Here’s the original announcement:
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/dp?entry=what_s_new_in_solaris8
I’m sorry for any confusion this post might’ve created– I did a few updates during lunchbreak from work, and had a million other things on my mind. And Solaris’ weird naming and versioning schemes don’t help either.
Anyway, have fun discussing.
Download Now! Solaris Express 8/05, CD 1, English sol-nv-b20-x86-v1-iso.zip 279.62 MB
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Wrong version number apparantly.
I have had Build 20 since August 1st. You are atleast 1 month, and/or 1 build, behind actual release date.
Here is the original posting for Build 20:
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=11575
I have had Build 20 since August 1st. You are atleast 1 month, and/or 1 build, behind actual release date.
Here is the original posting for Build 20:
Wrong. That was Solaris Express: Community Release. Solaris Express 08/05 is the official Solaris Express Release for SUN’s customers, and so is not the same and is not a month behind. It was only announced and posted Today. You can see the announcement on the opensolaris-discuss mailing list.
the downloads have been there for at least a week, as that’s how long i’ve been trying to get them from that awful script-based download server that only allows 2 concurrent connections per host and doesn’t like wget.
Got a average download of 400KB/1MB per sec.I think that it is more due to your connection.
The ISO’s on my system date 8/1/05, I think I downloaded them when that posting was made and got them that night.
But still, your atleast 1 build behind actual release times.
The Solaris Express 8/05 and Solaris Express Community Build 20 are the same.
I’m pleased to see they greatly improved the installer,it looks more “professional”.Funny sol wouldn’t allow me to use the graphical installer due to insufficient memory (256MB).
You can get KDE from Blastwave – http://www.blastwave.org
cool 🙂
The SX build is supposed to be snv_19. That’s what we’ve done qualification on, tested, release noted, etc.
But unfortunately, we posted the wrong image– snv_20. I just spoke to the parties responsible, and they are going to fix the download site very soon to be snv_19. If you really must have snv_20, which is more experimental, and has not been as rigorously tested for quality, you can fetch it from opensolaris.org.
We’re sorry for the confusion– and thanks for pointing it out to us.
The difference between “Express” and “Community Edition” is that “Express” gets more testing, docs, release notes and “What’s New”. “Express” can also be held or not released if it doesn’t meet quality criteria. “Community Edition” is basically the same thing we’re testing in-house– potentially less stable., and intended mostly for developers working on OpenSolaris itself.
I have a problem. 128MB is clearly not enough for the ramdisk, but 160MB should be enough because in 160MB you can fit the 128MB ramdisk and run the installer.
Alas, 160MB is not, because my old Dell has ACPI tables at 64MB, and Grub needs more than 128mb continuous space for the ramdisk. So, if continuous space starts at 64MB, I need at least 192MB and maybe something more if the installer doesn’t want to run in the first 64MB.
Solaris 10 went into that machine OK. I just couldn’t find smc and configure it properly. Maybe smc wasn’t included in the about 3GB set of packages I chose from the installer.
you need at least 256mb real ram to install the newboot version of Solaris Nevada.